Ian Blair
Ian Blair
Ian Warwick Blair, Baron Blair of Boughton, QPMis a retired British policeman who held the position of Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2005 to 2008 and was the highest-ranking officer within the Metropolitan Police Service...
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Our main priority is to make sure that everyone has an enjoyable time and is kept safe, ... The community has been very much behind the Metropolitan Police after the events of July 7 and July 21, and I think this is a good example of that.
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It does remain possible that those at large will strike again,
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It is a package that delivers safer neighbourhoods to everyone in London, that takes people out of their offices and puts them on the streets, that asks officers to walk as much as possible by themselves so they are accessible to the public, and it is part of the overall modernisation of the Metropolitan Police.
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It does also remain possible that there are other cells who are capable and intent on striking again.
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We have to look at the impact of this kind of behavior on impressionable young people and if there is evidence, something should be done about it,
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We have to look at the impact of this kind of behavior, and if there is evidence, something should be done about it.
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Where does resignation end? Of course, it might end fairly soon.
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We made a small number of administrative changes,
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It's mostly been a very friendly and generally good atmosphere,
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At the moment we have nothing that links the two groups, but the investigation still continues and there is an intuitive view that says that each group of four are so similar that we must have concerns, and we do.
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We will be monitoring the development in Egypt very carefully, and if it's necessary we will send officers there, or we will seek extradition or whatever other processes are necessary.
This is not the B-team. These weren't the amateurs. They made a mistake, they made one mistake. We are very, very lucky.
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The threat remains as clear and manifest as it has ever since last July.
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These allegations strike to the heart of the integrity of the police and integrity of the Met and I fundamentally reject them. There is no cover-up.